In xfce terminals start in ~/temp

So I add a launcher, say rxvt or aterm to the panel, and it starts in ~/temp (the name is not relevant) and not in ~. the vc logins go to ~
any ideas as to why and how to remove it?

I start X with slim as a daemon. Somewhere along the line I probably shut x off and went to ~/temp, so that was it. Thanks.
I get an interesting 'bug' with my prompt when I exit X, I'll now go see about that.

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just trying to switch from gnome to xfce. and i've got most of it working great. but i cant actually get xfce to start automatically
i've changed from gdm to slim and changed that in demons in /etc/rc.conf and i've changed .xinitrc and commented out 'exec gnome-session', and added in 'exec startxfce4'. slim starts great, and i can login from that, but for some reason, xfce wont start when x starts, i have to manually start it by typing startxfce4 at the terminal that comes up.
i followed the setup guide in the wiki under xfce.
does anyone know whats causing this?
Last edited by redefine (2008-08-03 00:40:49)

heres my .xinitrc.
its exactly the same as i had working with gnome, except i commented out exec gnome-session and added exec xfce4-session
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
exec xterm
exec xfce4-session
# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# exec icewm
# exec openbox
# exec blackbox
# exec fluxbox
# exec ratpoison
# exec dwm
# ... or any other WM of your choosing ...
EDIT...ok i fixed it, dont worry.
i removed 'exec xterm' from .xinitrc, and i changed 'xfce' to 'xfce4-session' in /etc/slim.conf where you choose the wm. yay
Last edited by redefine (2008-08-03 00:40:24)

[SOLVED] XFCE always starting with the US keyboard

Hi guys.
Recently I came back to XFCE and I have one problem: it always starts with the keymap set to US. I have to manually change it to PL (which I need) with setxkbmap. Also, when I'm using the panel plugin I cannot choose any keymaps other than the currently selected.
What can I do about it?
Last edited by JeremyTheWicked (2008-10-12 21:49:56)

The way I deal with the multimedia keys is that
1) figure out what keycodes they generate (run 'xev' and do some presses)
2) assign the correct name to them via xmodmap
maybe 3) use xbindkeys to let them do what they should do (but this is probably not necessary, DEs like xfce should be able to act just based on having a correct name assigned to the keypresses)
the xmodmap stuff:
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keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext
keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay
keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop
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But! maybe figuring out the correct option for your keyboard might render all of the above steps unnecessary. I don't know a good place to look for the options, except closely inspecting the contents of /usr/share/X11/xkb - there's a lot of stuff, but that's for instance where I found out the possible variants for the us keyboard.

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Hello, First time posting so don't punish me for any mistakes
Here is the problem:
After removing gnome and installing xfce Arch doesn't go into GUI mode automatically.
I am stuck at the command line.
From there I can type startxfce4 and it work but I want it do to start automatically.
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Put a bit of debugging info in your script, to remove some uncertainty. E.g.:
echo "Checking whether to run xorg"
First run this, to be on safe side:
chmod 700 ~/.bash_profile
Here's how I do it, in my ~/.bash_profile
# My ~/.bashrc does everything - convenient, but slightly un-optimized
. $HOME/.bashrc
hour=$(date +%k | sed "s:^ ::")
if [[ $hour -ge 8 ]] && [[ $hour -le 9 ]] ; then
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# https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=150539
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fi
fi
fi
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Xmonad + dmenu + Xfce Terminal Emulator hangs at green box

Previously I had been using the Xfce Terminal Emulator with dmenu xmonad. Most recently it stopped working and starting exhibiting the following behavior:
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[SOLVED] want to start either wifi or ether at boot for all users

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